How we pick

1. We start with every live draw

Every morning we take in the live draws from the sites we cover, with fresher readings through the day. A draw only counts if it's still open, closes at least 24 hours after your picks are made (so you have time to enter), and was seen in the last 48 hours (so a draw that quietly vanished from a site doesn't get picked).

Draws without a ticket cap (where the number of tickets can keep growing) have no fixed odds. We show them in search, labelled, but they never appear in picks.

2. Your limits come first

The most you'll pay for one ticket, sites you've switched off, whether you want free draws, paid draws or both, and draws you've already entered or said Not for me to. We never break one of these to fill a list. Sold-out draws are out.

3. Your prizes come first

Draws in the prize types you chose come first, then your starred groups. If those still don't make 5, we fill with the best of everything else that fits your limits, and say on each one that it isn't one of your prize types. Those never take any of your budget.

4. At least 3 big prizes, when they fit you

Big prizes are cars worth £10,000 or more, houses, cash (or a cash alternative) of £10,000 or more, and anything else worth £25,000 or more. When they fit your limits, at least 3 of your 5 picks are big prizes, taken only from what you chose.

If you didn't choose cars, houses or cash, your big prizes are the biggest ones in what you did choose. We never push a car on someone who wanted watches. If fewer than 3 big prizes fit your limits, you get the ones that do.

5. We rank on prize and odds together

Your chance per £1 is 1 ÷ (ticket price × number of tickets): the share of the whole draw each pound buys. It's fair between a 17p draw and a £5 one. We multiply it by the prize's value to the power of 0.75, so prize size counts but can't swamp the odds.

So a £50,000 car at 1 in 8,000 ranks above a £500 voucher at 1 in 400, but a £1m house at 1 in 2,000,000 doesn't: long odds can't win on prize size alone. Prizes worth under £150 come after bigger ones. Ties go to more prize value per £ of the whole draw, then to the one closing sooner.

Every pick says its odds, however long they are.

6. Five picks, spread out, inside your budget

Everyone gets 5 picks, free or Plus, whenever 5 draws fit your limits. No more than 2 from the same site and 2 of the same kind of prize (3 for big prizes), unless that would leave you short of 5. A prize matching your dream prize always gets a place.

We fit the picks inside your weekly budget, best first: one ticket each, then any budget left spread evenly. If you get picks more than once a week, the budget is split across them. A pick your budget doesn't cover this week is still shown, marked as over your budget, with no tickets suggested. We never go over it.

7. Instant wins and free draws are scored separately

Instant wins only appear if you asked for them, and only on the share of tickets that win cash. Site credit doesn't count as winning. Free draws are ranked on prize value, because they cost nothing.

The maths, with real draws

• 2020 Range Rover Velar SV Autobiography17p a ticket, 499,999 tickets. £10 buys 58 tickets. That's about 1 in 8,621.
• 2023 Ford Puma ST Performance50p a ticket, 79,999 tickets. £10 buys 20 tickets. That's about 1 in 4,000.

The cheaper ticket isn't the better bet. For the same £10, the Puma gives you more than twice the chance. That's the whole idea of DrawHawk.

Two real Rev Comps draws from 12 October 2026.

What never changes a ranking

• Commission. Some sites pay us when you enter through our link. It has no effect on where anything ranks, and a partner draw never ranks above a clearly better one.
• Sponsorship. If we ever show a sponsored draw, it says "Sponsored" on it, and it sits outside your ranked picks.
• Our own views on a site. Sites that fail our checks are labelled, not quietly pushed down.

How fast draws sell, and likely odds

We read every draw once a day from the feed, including how many tickets have sold. Once a draw has three readings across a day or more, we work out how many tickets it sells a day, over the last two days and over its life.

From that we can say whether it's selling fast (on course to sell out more than a day early), on course to fill, or selling slowly (at this pace it would close under 60% sold). Many draws sell a lot on their last day, so a slow start doesn't always mean a slow finish.

Listed odds of "1 in 10,000" assume every ticket sells. If only 6,000 sell, each ticket's chance is really 1 in 6,000. So we also work out a likely final range: the recent daily rate carried to the close, plus the extra that draws usually sell on their last day, learned from closed draws we've seen.

A likely figure is always marked Estimate. Some sites extend or roll over draws that don't sell, which would make the odds longer, and we don't always know which ones do.

A worked example

A draw has 10,000 tickets and closes in 2 days. It sold 2,000 by Monday and 3,000 by Tuesday: about 1,000 a day. Two more days at that rate, plus a busier last day, comes to about 6,000 sold, with a range of about 5,000 to 7,500. If it closes there, each ticket's chance is about 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 7,500, better than the listed 1 in 10,000.

How we check it

Before we show a likely figure, we test it on draws that have already closed: we pretend it's 3 days, 1 day or 6 hours before the close, make the estimate from what we knew then, and see whether the real figure landed inside the range. We only show it at a stage where it was right at least 70% of the time, across at least 30 closed draws.

• 3 days before close: no closed draws to test yet.
• 1 day before close: no closed draws to test yet.
• 6 hours before close: tested on 5 closed draws, inside the range 0% of the time.

Right now we don't have enough closed draws with a known final figure, so we don't show likely final figures yet. We show how fast each draw is selling.

Last checked 2026-10-24.

We never nudge your budget up

We'll never suggest spending more than you told us, never celebrate spending, and never call anything "profit". The point is the best odds for what you already spend. If you set a monthly limit and reach it, your picks pause until the 1st.